Rosa Montero

Spanish writer · Spain · Writers · Born 1951 · age 75

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Rosa Montero Gayo is a Spanish journalist and author of contemporary fiction.

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2019Alcalá City AwardsAward2017“The truth is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not choose, therefore, characters either.”In their wordsInterview with rain taxi (2017)Read the whole statement

“The relationship between the human being and the flesh has always been a matter of huge conflict.”In their wordsInterview with rain taxi (2017)Read the whole statement

“what we can control is how we respond to what happens to us, what we do with what happens to us.”In their wordsInterview with rain taxi (2017)Read the whole statement

“I have the feeling . . . no, the conviction, the certainness that reality and fiction are really mixed up.”In their wordsInterview with rain taxi (2017)Read the whole statement

“You can’t make a living out of fiction writing. You can’t and you shouldn’t.”In their wordsInterview with rain taxi (2017)Read the whole statement

“I will say there are two authors I consider my teachers, one on the most realistic side and the other one in the most fantastic side: one of them is American, Ursula K.”In their wordsInterview with rain taxi (2017)Read the whole statement

Spanish Literature National PrizeAward1951Born3 January 1951

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Rosa Montero at a demonstration against the Toro de la Vega tournament 2014

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Rosa Montero

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The truth is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not choose, therefore, characters either.
2017, Interview with rain taxi (2017), Own words
At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you...the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.
2017, Interview with rain taxi (2017), Own words
The relationship between the human being and the flesh has always been a matter of huge conflict.
2017, Interview with rain taxi (2017), Own words